The Eternal Tulip

The resurrection of once deadened bulbs,
Now Tulips appear with a visual clarion blast.
The announcement of spring is here at last!
A reminder of death that gained a new life.
Last years tulips died but did not disappear,
Death was but a brief sleep for the bulbs.

Now even the atheist, the Jew and The Arab,
A Pagan Priestess or Egyptian with a scarab,
Even one with no belief of any higher power,
Can find some joy from that one little flower.

The clarion vision, the sight that blasts your eyes
the scent of the flower explodes into silent skies!
If there were a sound that expresses the glee:
The deaf can now hear and the blind can now see!

Posted 5 Years Ago

Posted 8 Years Ago

what a beautiful image this poem portrays of a flower resurrected, and that being said--it has a spiritual depth to it as well. my favorite stanza is the last, with the sight that "blasts your eyes" and the exploding scent of the flower. great write!

Posted 9 Years Ago

I just kind of stumbled on this one, I like it mostly for the title I guess, the eternal tulip brings to mind all sorts of strange contradictions, including one occasion in my youth in which I procured a tulip from my mothers garden to give to a girl i was madly in love with only to get caught up in a wind storm on my way to school that as you might guess promptly divested said tulip of all its petals. In any event, tulips are fragile in the short term-- everlasting in the long term. i like it.

Posted 9 Years Ago

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